Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Grok 4.6 xai/grok-4.6 | Claude Opus 4.7 anthropic/claude-opus-4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Anthropic |
| Family | Grok 4 | Claude 4 |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 500,000 tok | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | 32,768 tok | 128,000 tok |
| Released | 2026-08-12 | 2026-05-22 |
| Input price | $2.00 /1M | $5.00 /1M |
| Output price | $6.00 /1M | $25.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | $0.500 /1M |
| Tools | — | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | yes |
| JSON mode | — | yes |
| Reasoning | — | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | yes |
xAI's Grok 4.6, a flagship reasoning model for coding, agentic tasks, and visual work. Accepts text and image inputs, and supports function calling and structured outputs.
Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model, with a step-change improvement in agentic coding over Claude Opus 4.6. It uses adaptive thinking to calibrate reasoning per task and supports a one million token context window at standard pricing.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Grok 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
model="xai/grok-4.6",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Claude Opus 4.7 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.7",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)